בס''ד Y E S H I V A T O R A S C H A I M T O R A S E M E S KLURMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JANUARY 3, 2014 TEAM SPIRIT STAR STUDENTS

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1 בס''ד Y E S H I V A T O R A S C H A I M T O R A S E M E S KLURMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JANUARY 3, 2014 פרשת בא CANDLE LIGHTING 5:24 pm TEAM SPIRIT STAR STUDENTS DINNER THIS SUNDAY!!! DETAILS INSIDE Aviel Bayles T.S. Yosef Benmergui Moshe Uriel Botton S.S. Zachy Breier T.S. Tzvi Danziger T.S. Gavi Feigenbaum T.S. Joseph Feldman S.S. Nesanel Garfinkel S.S. Nosson Geisinsky T.S. Menachem Gelman S.S. Avi Ginsparg S.S. Levi Haimov T.S. Dovid Laks S.S. Yitzchak Mercado S.S. Natan Mizrahi T.S. Kalmi Rosenberg T.S. Yaakov Simkins S.S. Yosef Haim Suissa T.S. Pnina Bergida T.S. Shifra Braunshweiger T.S. Gabriella Chattah S.S. Sonia Ginsburg T.S. Leah Gordon S.S. Ahuva Grossman (3G) - S.S. Naomi Grynsztein S.S. Tamar Hyman T.S. Noa Meza S.S. Batsheva Roth S.S. Perri Ruck T.S. Rachel Ruda S.S. Lia Sedaghati T.S. Aliza Turner S.S. Chava Wunsch T.S. Eden Zabari S.S. Daniel Chattah Moshe Danziger Shmueli Feigenbaum Avrohom Goldenberg Shua Jeger Leo Kanter Matisyahu Meiner Shua Privalsky Aryeh Sova Nochi Zeines TEAM PLAYERS Adina Albert Ariella Balgley Miriam Leah Elkayam Malky Gross Naomi Grynsztein Miriam Hemsani Tehila Klecky Hadassah Privalsky Adi Prync Esther Reich Esther Chaya Rubinov Naomi Rubinov Rachel Ruda Aliya Shanes Esther Sharaby Ayelet Siev Please see attached final Dinner/Journal Update

2 THIS SUNDAY!!! 30th ANNIVERSARY JOURNAL DINNER JUNGLE ISLAND - 6PM It's hard to believe that our journal campaign has come to a close. We thank you all for your efforts and look forward to seeing you all on Sunday evening as we pay tribute to our most worthy honorees. If you have not yet made your reservations and/or communicated your seating preference, please do so ASAP by calling us at x 223, or by ing us at dinner@ytcteam.org. Have a GREAT Shabbos and see you at the dinner! DIRECTIONS TO JUNGLE ISLAND Jungle Island is at 1111 Parrot Jungle Trail, off I-395 (MacArthur Causeway), between Downtown Miami & South Beach. From I-95 :Take I-395 East (MacArthur Causeway) exit 2D. Cross over the bridge and make your first right after the bridge onto Parrot Jungle Trail. Follow the road around and under the bridge to the parking garage on the left-hand side. From the East (Miami Beach) :Take I-395 West (MacArthur Causeway), and make the first right turn after Palm Island, next to the Miami Yacht Club. Make the first left turn onto Parrot Jungle Trail and the parking garage will be on the right-hand side. PARSHA QUIZ Last week s question: Which grandfather and grandson lived the same amount of years? Last week s answer: Both לוי and his grandson עמרם lived 137 (ו,טז,יח) years. This week s question: In this Parsha, the Torah discusses the last three.מכות The names of which 2 earlier מכות are mentioned in this Parsha? GIRLS GALORE BRUNCH & MORE Building Community Through Clothes Sunday, January 12, :30 am - 12:30 pm Skylake Synagogue (main Sanctuary) 1850 NE 183 Street See flyer attached to newsletter for details.

3 T o Mr. and Mrs. Omer Grynsztein and family on the birth of a girl. TERRIFIC THIRD GRADE T o Mr. and Mrs. Michael Benchetrit and family on the Bar Mitzvah of their son, our alumnus, Jacob. Tinok ben Dina Yaakov ben Rachel Galit bas Ruma Mina Yehudis bas Masouda Aharon Dovid ben Chaya Esther bas Chaya Sara Yitzchok Shmuel ben Pesha Sara Yitzchok Reuven ben Malka Tzvi Zelig ben Chasya Rochel Rivka bas Minnie Dovid ben Rochel Dovid Tzvi Aharon ben Alte Rochel Refael Elisha Meir ben Devorah Shaina Hinda bas Dina L ast week, Terrific Third Grade students read a story entitled, A Pen Pal for Max about a boy from Santiago, Chile who became pen pals with a student from America. Unexpectedly, the boys were treated to a visit from a guest geographer. What a perfect geography lesson! The geographer taught the students about the Northern and Southern hemispheres, the equator and the Prime Meridian. He demonstrated how he checks for movement in the earth s crust by using a seismograph, which helps predict when an earthquake may come. The grand finale was when he brought a working model of an erupting volcano! And who was this entertaining and interesting geographer? None other than our Middle School geography teacher, Mr. Scott! The students enjoyed the presentation and wrote individual thank you letters to express their appreciation. See photos on following page.

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5 FIRST GRADE SIDDUR PARTIES M azel Tov to the first grade boys and girls who celebrated receiving their first, beautifully decorated Siddur at their festive parties on Thursday. Special recognition must be given to Rabbi Goldenberg, Mrs. Cohen, Mrs. Rosenbaum, Mrs. Becker, Miss Homnick, Mrs. Rosenberg, and Mrs. Tempelberg for all of their efforts and hard work in preparation for this milestone in the lives of our first grade boys and girls. Yasher Koach to Rabbi Baumann for encouraging the students with his inspiring words at each celebration. We are grateful to the many parents for their invaluable assistance in making this event a truly festive celebration by shopping and sending in food, treats and supplies. We appreciate the parents who captured the milestone in both still and video photography, and we love the beautiful, calligraphied bookmarks personalized for each child. Many thanks to: Mrs. Sarah Alber - cookies & vegetable platters & set up, Mrs. Rochel Albert - shopping, Mr. Jacob Attia - photography, Mrs. Karen Biton - video, Mr. Motty Breier - shopping, Mrs. Jennifer Dahan - Tefillos banner extraordinaire!, Mrs. Adina Dreyfuss - banner and Siddur cake, Mrs. Ruthy Ginsburg - set up, Mrs. Rivka Ginsparg - shopping & sponsoring, Mrs. Aliza Goldenberg - cake, Mrs. Tova Goldenberg - set up, Mrs. Shulamis Goodman - banners, Siddur coloring sheets, making the CD, Mrs. Malky Gordon - shopping & set up, Mrs. Esti Grossman - cake, Mrs. Chana Harrel - singing with her guitar, Dr. Aton Holzer - calligraphy on bookmarks, Mrs. Rachel Holzer - set up, Mrs. Esther Chana Kirzner - shopping, Mrs. Valerie Kurlansky - Siddur cake, shopping and photography, Mrs. Nathalie Nahon - calligraphy on bookmarks, Mrs. Dorith Ness - set up, Mrs. Karen Nightingale - sewing bookmarks, Mrs. Shaindy Paritzky - paper goods, Mrs. Nechama Privalsky - fruit platter, Mrs. Orli Sasson - bookmarks, Mrs. Risha Schwartz - shopping, Mrs. Rochie Schwartz - bookmarks, Mrs. Yaffa Strassfeld - vegetable platter & set up, Mrs. Malky Stohl - photography, Mrs. Arin Taillard - photography Last, but not least, great appreciation is extended to the first grade students (and their helpers) for the time and energy expended in making such beautiful and creative Siddur covers! If your name was inadvertently left off this list, please accept our apologies and know that we are extremely grateful for your contribution in making this year s Siddur Parties the BEST!!!! מזל טוב! מזל טוב!

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7 ACE NEWS This week, Tamar and Mrs. Barouk celebrated weeks of excellent learning with an art project. Tamar created this beautiful canvas using crayons, blow dryer and glue. We are excited for more great weeks of learning!

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9 Erev Shabbos Parashas Bo 5774 Dear Parents, The occasion of our Yeshiva s 30 th anniversary is not limited to marking an important milestone in the growth of our institution, but it is also a celebration of 30 years of our community s absorbing and imbibing the Torah and Mussar of our Rebbe, the late, great Chofetz Chaim Rosh Yeshiva, HaGaon HaRav Henach Leibowitz, zt l. His students have shared his teachings that are a continuation of the legacy of two spiritual giants of the Mussar Movement Rav Yisrael Salanter and Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel, the Alter of Slabodka. The emphasis of these great men s teaching is illuminating the Torah s lessons on the refinement of the individual s midos and the primacy of good character in man s quest for spiritual perfection. A classic example can be found in this week s Parsha in the incident of Pharoah expelling Moshe and Aharon from the palace. (Shemos 10:11) This occurred after Moshe and Aharon warned Pharoah of the impending plague of locusts and left the palace. What happened next, according to the Riva, one of the Baalei HaTosfos, (as explained by Rabbi Elyakim Rosenblatt, shlita) was that Pharoah s servants became nervous and frightened and pressured Pharoah to call Moshe and Aharon back for further negotiations. Pharoah sent a messenger to invite them back for additional talks. The talks stalled, Moshe and Aharon tarried in Pharoah s presence until Pharoah had them driven out forcefully. The Riva asks: Why in this case did Moshe and Aharon tarry, while concerning every other plague they issued their warning and quickly left Pharoah s presence? The Riva answers that by every other occasion Moshe and Aharon came of their own accord, but in this case they had received a royal invitation. -continued-

10 page 2 It would therefore constitute a lack of Derech Eretz for Moshe and Aharon to leave without Pharoah s permission. Because they had been invited by Pharoah, it would have been disrespectful to leave without Pharoah s permission. Without having received that permission, Moshe and Aharon felt compelled to stay and wait until Pharoah drove them out. The Rosh HaYeshiva, Rav Leibowitz, zt l, finds the behavior of Moshe and Aharon mystifying. They opened themselves up to personal humiliation and embarrassment, and worse, as representatives of Hashem Himself, their humiliation caused a Chillul Hashem (desecration of Hashem s name). Shouldn t they have avoided this massive Chillul Hashem by overlooking a mere precept of Derech Eretz and walk out on Pharoah? The Rosh HaYeshiva explained, that we learn from here that not acting with Derech Eretz causes a Chillul Hashem. Furthermore, there would be a very great Chillul Hashem if the representatives of Hashem, Moshe and Aharon, were not to act with Derech Eretz and mentschlichkeit. The Chillul Hashem caused by staying and then getting expelled was less than the Chillul Hashem that would be caused by Hashem s messengers not showing the proper honor even to a hated, despicable king such as Pharoah. They chose to abide by the Derech Eretz imperative even though ignoring it would have avoided the public humiliation of being driven away. What a lesson in the importance of being a mentsch! Many people mistakenly think acting with Derech Eretz is not essential or fundamental to being a Torah Jew. They feel it is not Halacha and can be taken lightly. We see from Moshe and Aharon how untrue that is. They taught us it is preferable to choose embarrassment and the diminution of their reputation and even possibly of Hashem s honor rather than violate the severe transgression of acting without Derech Eretz. It behooves all of us, who have the distinct privilege of being Hashem s representatives, to realize that by being Baalei Derech Eretz polite, courteous and respectful we will enhance the honor of Hashem. This selfsame lesson must be the foundation of everything that we teach our children at home, in school and in between, that Derech Eretz Kadma L Torah before one can acquire Torah, one must be a mentsch! This is the legacy that guides and directs us, and may it continue BE H to be the Hashkafa (worldview) that informs our efforts in raising generations of students who not only are proud to be a part of the Jewish people, but who the Jewish people will be proud to count among its finest. Best wishes for a wonderful Shabbos, Rabbi Kalman Baumann

11 Girls Galore Brunch & More Sunday, January 13, 2013 Skylake Synagogue 1850 NE 183 Street, North Miami Beach 10:30am 12:30pm Building Community Through Clothes Special guest: Mrs. Judith Abrams A resident of Aventura, Mrs. Abrams has been teaching Judaic Studies and lecturing to women's groups for over thirty years. Currently she is a Judaic Studies teacher at Shaarei Bina, Torah Academy for Girls. She continues to pursue her studies in Jewish History and Tanach and has served as Curriculum Coordinator for both in many Torah U Mesorah schools throughout the country. Rabbi and Mrs. Abrams are supervisors of the dormitory of the Doresh Yeshiva, a yeshiva for boys with learning challenges. Mrs. Abrams has also been an active member of The Community Closet since Pay in advance: $25 mother/daughter pair - includes 1 raffle ($36 maximum for mother & additional daughters) $10 each additional guest includes 1 raffle Pay at the door: $30 mother/daughter pair - includes 1 raffle 1 additional raffle ticket $2, $20 for 10 tickets Sponsorships welcome at: $100 includes admission & 4 raffle tickets $75 includes admission & 3 raffle tickets $50 includes admission & 2 raffle tickets Items for the Kosher Food Bank will be graciously accepted. RSVP: Chava Mann or chavitamann@hotmail.com

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